{"id":29926,"date":"2020-07-18T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T06:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29926"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T06:09:41","slug":"3-militants-killed-in-shopian-operation-in-jammu-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29926","title":{"rendered":"3 militants killed in Shopian operation in Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The identity and the affiliations of the slain militants could not be ascertained immediately.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three militants were killed in an operation of the security forces in south Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThree militants have been killed in the operation and their bodies were recovered from a cowshed, where they were hiding,\u201d a police official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A gunfight erupted in Shopian&#8217;s Amshipora early Saturday morning when the security forces launched an operation based of a tip off about the presence of militants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMilitants opened fire when zeroed in,\u201d said the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A joint team of Police, Army\u2019s 62 RR and CRPF was part of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The identity and the affiliations of the slain militants could not be ascertained immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants were killed on Friday in south Kashmir&#8217;s Kulgam, including an IED expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 136 militants have been killed in stepped up operations in Kashmir so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/many-militants-killed-in-shopian-operation-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/article32120583.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The identity and the affiliations of the slain militants could not be ascertained immediately. Three militants were killed in an operation of the security forces in south Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian on Saturday. \u201cThree militants have been killed in the operation and their bodies were recovered from a cowshed, where they were hiding,\u201d a police official said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}